Confirmation from Boreham Wood that we did make an acceptable offer and the player turned us down, BUT an astonishing insight into the behaviour of his agent. Chapter and verse here: [www.borehamwoodfootballclub.co.uk]

Don't know if we still have any interest in signing him but we may have just dodged a bullet here.

It’s a definite No for all the baggage he would bring.He has had injuries and letting people send an email on your behalf without vetting it.Frankly if he doesn’t know how unscrupulous his new agents are he may not have the nous to make it anywhere.Would make me think that he wouldn’t be able to comprehend Micky’s team talks either
Fair play to Boreham Wood to tackle the riff raff head on and glad that he won’t set foot at Prenton Park on a permanent basis

bheadladIt’s a definite No for all the baggage he would bring.He has had injuries and letting people send an email on your behalf without vetting it.Frankly if he doesn’t know how unscrupulous his new agents are he may not have the nous to make it anywhere.Would make me think that he wouldn’t be able to comprehend Micky’s team talks either
Fair play to Boreham Wood to tackle the riff raff head on and glad that he won’t set foot at Prenton Park on a permanent basis

+1 and fair play to boreham wood for bringing this out in the open and wanting to take it to the high court.. some of these agents/reps are a real cancer on the game..anyway if ferrier doesn't want to play for the mighty TRFC then F*ck him.

It shows that you never just sign a player you sign a person and all their baggage..If we really did try to sign him then we escaped a potential bullet. It makes you wonder how much clubs look beyond what happens on the pitch when signing plsyers

Can’t see their beef, welcome to professional football, nothing new here so much so I made the comment on the other thread his agent is engineering a move, that’s what they do it’s what the player pays them for to earn more money and capitalise on success, Boringwood will be the other end of the table this year and at Christmas instead of Morgan Ferrier the only Morgan we will be hearing about is Captain, January will come and go, strike while the irons hot and that.

Football agents need to act responsibly and be accountable for their actions.

Agent impropriety has been known down the years I:E Cory Collymore, but this individual should not be behaving the way they have been.

Ferrier was naive to not vet the agent's email and it is clear this new agent represents impropriety of which there can be none in the game.

Good luck to Borehamwood trying to shut down this kind of behaviour. If they win then potentially so many football clubs will win and legislation might be brought in to add more regulation to the way agents and representatives conduct themselves, if such regulation, whatever it might be, is deemed necessary.

Ferrier on the other hand needs to be a little more savvy and professional about how he conducts himself and frankly it would seem Tranmere are better off without him.

Then I ate his Liver.......... with some baked beans and a can of coke.

Getting more money perhaps, but the agent was still trying to bully them into doing what he wanted and his conduct was still poor.

Imagine Tranmere dealing with someone of that mentality and they were getting an offer for a player of £150,000 from an SPL club or one for £130,000 from a League one club and he said he didn't want to play in Scotland, then his agent says to Micky Mellon, my client wants to join league 1 club X, do this, do that Mr Mellon and hop to it and by the way your Chairman worked at the FA, around the time there was a minor scandal involving a now ex-England Manager, so he must be a bit snide in some way and probably being savvy with accounts knows how to fiddle the books.

If that happened how many people would be on here lambasting the player and agent?

Then I ate his Liver.......... with some baked beans and a can of coke.

Yah but if BW are using the lack of clarity in their contract to break he spirit of the clause (ie making unreasonable add-on demands in order to effectively raise the 35k release fee) then there might be reason why they are resorting to being dicks.

As it is they are waving their contract around as though terrier is being unreaonable in asking to be released for 35k +20%

His agent's behaviour is poor, but I wouldnt be quick to see it as clear black and white.

mrGr33n13Yah but if BW are using the lack of clarity in their contract to break he spirit of the clause (ie making unreasonable add-on demands in order to effectively raise the 35k release fee) then there might be reason why they are resorting to being dicks.
As it is they are waving their contract around as though terrier is being unreaonable in asking to be released for 35k +20%

His agent's behaviour is poor, but I wouldnt be quick to see it as clear black and white.

I can't imagine the non specified 'add on fees' were that problematic seeing as we had managed to meet their expectations on them and are a league below AFC Wimbledon. Seems like if it was going to be a sticking point he should have mentioned it when he signed the contract in the first place.

sounds to me that his previous agent was a bit too pliant and allowed BW to draw up a vague contract with clauses that allowed them to effectively raise the transfer fee to where they wanted it.

a release clause is surely there so that when conditions 'x' are met a player is allowed to leave. there is literally zero point in having a release clause whereby the club can raise the fee on a whim. ' conditions 'x' clearly need to be defined in the contract. here they are not and BW can cleary bin off a bid by raising the addons. barmy that his orignal agent allowed such a thing.

Always 2 sides to every story and the truth is somewhere in the middle, don’t be so naive as to think the club won’t play the same games as the agent, why do you think they’ve made it public, it’s not because they have suddenly developed a set of morals, it’s because they know Ferriers off and couldn’t agree terms here in what was clearly a good deal for them, they want to maximise their profit or maybe even put other clubs off by making them think he’s a bell and punish him for not coming here so they can cash in, leave him to sulk in the youth team where he’s not making bonuses.

Basically, Keates saw that we made an offer and because he loves anything to do with us thought 'why not'.

Hopefully (for him and them) all that nonsense is behind him with the former agent and he knuckles down as Walsall need to climb from what seems to be their usual bottom third finish in L1 in recent times.

rossb07Basically, Keates saw that we made an offer and because he loves anything to do with us thought 'why not'.
Hopefully (for him and them) all that nonsense is behind him with the former agent and he knuckles down as Walsall need to climb from what seems to be their usual bottom third finish in L1 in recent times.

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